David Gerard wrote: > On 1 March 2011 19:35, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm curious how http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Storyteller >> fits in with Wikimedia's mission or its strategic plan. > > It's pretty much directly answered right there on the linked page, for > anyone else who's wondering. > > What bit of the page wasn't clear?
The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount of resources for staff hires; I just don't see how this passes any type of reasonable cost/benefit analysis. If it's the outside world's perception of Wikimedia that is the underlying concern, I think hiring someone whose job description includes "make something incredibly beautiful every month" might be more detrimental to Wikimedia's image and mission than anything else. There are a lot of people who would be (more) willing to donate to Wikimedia if they didn't feel their donations would be spent like this, in my view. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
